spirited
adjective
having or showing mettle, courage, vigor, liveliness, etc..
spiritedly
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a word derived from
spirited.
Example Sentences
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Mr Suraiya spiritedly defended the magazine: "JS spoke to a certain urban educated cultural sensibility that was in a sense, Westernised, but it was shaping a distinctly Indian cosmopolitanism".
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2023
So I settled on a very different riddle, one that my co-clerks and I had spent an earlier lunch hour spiritedly debating.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2023
It’s a hokey setup, but Duchovny is spiritedly determined to work through the various permutations of this man-and-Mammon tale.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2021
Sant spiritedly talks of how cement production is exhausting the Earth, accounting for an absurd share of the greenhouse gases that industry spews into the air.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2018
She put down the basket of eggs and led the way, her head carried quite as spiritedly as Judith Westmore bore hers.
From Nobody's Child by Elizabeth Dejeans
